Penn Badgley Recounts the Prank Ex Blake Lively Pulled on Him—and I Can’t Believe He Fell for It

While working together on Gossip Girl, Lively managed to recruit Badgley’s publicist and team of representatives for the prank. “I get an email, just like, ‘There’s this press item that we’re trying to kill, but just so you know, somebody thinks or Steve Tyler thinks he’s your dad,’” Badgley explained to his two podcast co-hosts. 

When the story showed no signs of going away, Badgley shared that his publicist and manager contacted him days later, saying that Tyler was heavily convinced that he was, in fact, the actor’s biological father. “At this point, of course, I don’t think it’s true but it’s like, ‘How can Steven Tyler believe this? There’s no way! You have to be kidding. Steve Tyler of Aerosmith thinks that I’m his [like] illegitimate child?!” he shared.